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Using a Constructivist theoretical learning approach, this study examines syllabi from higher education media-related departments to develop a uniform foundation for media literacy courses by finding common objectives and ...

Archives management has developed from a subcategory of history to its own profession through measures such as guidelines for archival practices and access, as well as standards in education and certification, all of which ...

A mishandled crisis has the power to devastate a nonprofit organization. This paper explores the importance of a well-orchestrated response to a crisis for the purpose of minimizing this devastation. In their books ...

The antebellum era is often portrayed a time of religious flourishing, when the state got along with the church, when revivalism gave a voice to the voiceless, and when churches grew faster than the population. While these ...

Prima facie Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster movie Inception presents a seemingly fanciful idea: the idea that one can successfully implant an idea in the mind of an unaware subject insomuch that the subject believes that ...

The purpose of this thesis is to introduce to the reader Critical Chain Project Management, which is the application of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) process to project management. Eli Goldratt describes the process in ...

The following pages embody the research, observations and reflections of the author on the difficult problem of ascertaining the nature of the church. It will be obvious to the reader that the author is a Baptist and ...

Miscegenation, a word not coined until the Civil War, has been an intrinsic part of American History. There is a rich field of scholars discussing the experiences of interracial couples from Colonial America through ...

Soil-transmitted helminths, also known as intestinal worms, are ubiquitous in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In SSA, malaria accounts for 80-90% of all worldwide cases (WHO Malaria Report 2011), and there is significant ...

In May-July of 2013, a cross-sectional research project was undertaken in rural western Kenya on the Nyakach Plateau in the Nyanza Province examining the effects of goat milk consumption on long-term and short-term growth ...

In order to more effectively address the expansion of type 2 diabetes worldwide, this study investigated the role that stressors and the stress response play in the development of diabetes. This study analyzed clinical ...

We report a series of complex (dusty) plasma experiments, aimed at the study of the detailed time evolution of the recrystallization process following a rapid quench of a two-dimensional dust liquid. The experiments were ...

The purpose of the study was to examine standardized test scores of school districts in the state of Texas that have implemented CSCOPE, a popular curriculum management system, in an effort to determine what effect, if ...

The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway recognizes and degrades mRNA with premature termination codon and some natural mRNA as well. CTR2 is a natural mRNA degraded by NMD in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The goals of ...

Historic house museums and villages have been struggling for the last 25 years to sustain their operating costs. Many have been focusing on interpretation as a way to engage the public and gain a new audience. This project ...

Social scientists have long recognized a positive link between religion and civic life in the United States. Americans who attend religious services more frequently, who pray more often, and who are more involved in the ...

Culture and religion play a significant role in the development and maintenance of mental health stigma. They influence beliefs about the causes of mental illness and also impact willingness to seek treatment. In the United ...

Although historic house museums, especially those in which political or community leaders once lived, are quite common and have been analyzed by museum scholars, the sub-genre of historic houses in which European classical ...

The purposes of the present study were to classify youth into subgroups based on their involvement in cyberbullying, to examine group differences in terms of internalizing problems, and to examine moderator effects of peer ...

This thesis examines the ways Christians might view and interact with daily bread differently than those operating under secular modern frameworks. In it, I examine certain Christian liturgical practices of fasting and ...